This application provides wireless communications configuration methods and apparatuses. One method includes: receiving, by a service node of a server, a first packet sent by a client device, wherein a destination address of the first packet is an internet protocol (IP) address of the server; sending, by the service node, a second packet to the client device, wherein the second packet comprises the IP address of the service node; and receiving, by the service node, a third packet sent by the client device, wherein a destination address of the third packet is the IP address of the service node that is different from the destination address of the first packet.